If your show is set after 1930, then at some point a radio will be heard. It will only be playing well-known songs that, with hindsight, are seen as the coolest or most iconic of their era. Never any of the novelty singles, one-hit wonders or any form of teen pop that would have been on genuine radio stations of the period. If a movie marquee is seen, it will be showing a well-known classic of the period. Newspaper headlines will be the stories that everyone remembers, and televisions will always be showing either a famous opening sequence (''Series/{{Mash}}'', ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'', etc.) or a famous scene (such as the chocolate factory scene from ''Series/ILoveLucy'').

As a corollary, the radio will almost always be playing ''current'' hits of the period in question, especially if the scene is a flashback set 10 years or more before the main action of the show. How would the audience know the flashback is taking place in 1982 if the people in it are inconsiderate enough to be listening to hits of the '60s or '70s on an oldies station, [[AnachronismStew or of 1987]]?

In addition to giving a clear indication as to the time period of a scene, this allows the audience to only be exposed to elements of pop culture that have aged relatively well. If even the most iconic songs of a decade often seem rather dated and silly nowadays, the big hits of the summer that were promptly forgotten would be rather painful for the modern audience to experience. Unless they are [[StylisticSuck deliberately picked]] from the worst of the worst. Oldies radio stations in the real world do the same thing: What you loved when you were 15 is different from what you want to hear on an oldies station when you are forty. To use an example: a "love" song from before TheNineties about teenage girls now comes across as stalker-ish, if not outright sexist or misogynistic to a modern adult.

Of course, the above doesn't apply just to period pieces. Vintage films set in their contemporaneous times (''especially'' if they're from TheEighties or later) will more often than not have a soundtrack consisting of current pop songs for the tie-in merchandising, and in hindsight they will themselves come off as this trope. (Consider the embarrassing VHS description for the 1984 musical ''PurpleRain'', which was ''not'' updated for the DVD rerelease more than a decade later: "...a now soundtrack by the hottest bands around!")

This is likely to occur in a MisterSandmanSequence, though in that case the song would likely be playing on the film's soundtrack rather than within the scene itself. A sub-trope of SmallReferencePools. Related to NostalgiaFilter and PopularHistory. Can overlap with PoliticallyCorrectHistory if the vintage element being shown is popular ''now'', but was way too ''avant-garde'' or even offensive in its own era for most people to enjoy it.----!!Examples

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[[folder: Advertising]]* In the Kia Optima ads featuring NBA player Blake Griffin, he time travels to his past selves (in 1995, 1997, 1999, 2002 and 2006) to brag about his new Kia, and also to hint that he will play basketball in the future. Whenever he time travels, the car radio plays a big hit from the year he travels to. For example, the 1995 one plays "This Is How We Do It" by Montell Jordan and the 1999 one plays "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" by Eiffel 65.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Comic Books]]* ''TheTwelve'' has twelve WorldWarII characters waking up on the 21st century. They're put in a fake 40s hospital to avoid culture shock during their recovery, complete with a radio playing 40s hits. The first suspicion that something is wrong comes when one of them notices the radio is not playing ''commercials''.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Film - Live Action]]* The movies ''Film/ForrestGump'' and ''Film/RememberTheTitans'' used only well-known songs in their soundtracks, and a ''hell'' of a lot of them; there are enough songs included that roughly 90% of each movie contains a hit song, and no two scenes in either flick re-use the same tune.** Except for the times when it's in-universe in ''Remember The Titans'', such as when the team sings "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" or "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"** ''Remember the Titans'' also plays with this trope. When things look bad for the Titans, the film's original score is used. When things begin to look better, then they start to use late 60s/early 70s classic rock.* In ''Film/{{Apollo 13}}'' the teenage daughter's radio was playing during almost every scene they showed Lovell's family, clearly to sell yet another late 60s/early 70s classic rock movie soundtrack.* Many movies set in the very early 90's will include ''Fight The Power'' by PublicEnemy. ''Film/DoTheRightThing'', ''Film/BuffaloSoldiers'', ''Film/{{Jarhead}}'' and ''Film/ThreeKings'' all used it.* Averted in ''Film/{{Zodiac}}'', where most of the contemporary music heard is more obscure than the songs usually used in films set in the 1970s. Ironically, one of the cuts David Fincher made to ''Zodiac'' before it hit theaters was a blank-screen audio montage that denoted the passage of time between 1973-1977 with a "nothing but hits" soundtrack spanning the era. The Director's Cut restores this, utilizing well-known songs by Roberta Flack, Wild Cherry, Bachman Turner Overdrive and other ubiquitous hits.* Many biographical musicals use Nothing But Hits to the point of anachronism.* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'', the movie starts with Elvis singing the song "Hound Dog". Welcome to TheFifties, folks.* Nicely parodied in ''Film/TropicThunder''. Seriously, do we ever need to hear "For What It's Worth" in a montage about TheSixties again?** Ironically, the scene in question is actually taking place in roughly our own time. The main characters are actors filming a VietnamWar story on location in Southeast Asia, and they're trying to stay in character even after it becomes clear [[DramaticIrony (to us)]] that the movie's director has been killed and his cast has wandered off the script. Tugg Speedman remains clueless longer than anyone else: even after he's taken prisoner by heroin dealers in the dreaded Golden Triangle, he assumes they're just actors playing Viet Cong.* Semi-averted in ''Film/AmericanGraffiti''; while there are plenty of familiar hits like "Rock Around the Clock" and "Johnny B. Goode", you also get such relatively (now) obscure rock and R&B singles as the Five Satins' "To the Aisle" and the Heartbeats' "A Thousand Miles Away". (Granted, that film ''was'' only a decade removed from the period it depicted...)* There was an interview with the director of ''LetTheRightOneIn'' where he mentioned that he made a conscious effort to avert this trope: although the film is set in the 80s, he didn't want it to be a nostalgic sort of film, so didn't use any period music. Instead, he took the novel approach of hiring a contemporary musician to write a song that ''sounded like'' it was from the 80s.* ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' uses some famous period pieces to date its flashbacks; the way the music combines with the visuals ranges from acceptable to horribly Narmy. The use of ''Ride of the Valkyries,'' in particular, is cited as [[Film/ApocalypseNow an awkward period film reference]]. On the other hand, the opening credits, a photo-montage of the in-universe history of superheroes, is set to "[[BobDylan The Times They Are A-Changin']]", and is nothing short of ''brilliant''. As it is, one song, "All Along the Watchtower" (which is used in a scene set in 1985, by the way), certainly belongs in the film as it is the one song in the film that was used for an end of chapter quote in the original [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} limited series]].** However, ''Ride of the Valkyries'' is a Romantic work from the nineteenth century. So unless you take the ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' connection into account, it's an aversion of the trope.*** Also, the song had a specific significance in the original comic. This significance had absolutely nothing to do with the scene it was used for in the movie. Also, the comic had several Bob Dylan lyrical quotes in it.**** It was also referencing the original version by Bob Dylan (as being in print it was more concerned with the lyrics than music). The film chose to use the more popular cover by Jimi Hendrix.* Creator/JohnWaters averts the trope in the soundtracks to his historical epics ''Film/{{Hairspray}}'' and ''Film/CryBaby''. John Waters' passion is trolling record stores, collecting obscure regional hits from that time period. Those were from the days when a start-up band could drop a recording to the local radio deejay and make it big. Waters actually released a multi-disc CD collection of some of his favorites he found on his record store journeys. He even mentions in interviews most of his 50s-60s era movies were a love letter to that period in the music industry's history.* Played straight [[http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0352520/goofs several times]] in ''The Life and Death of Creator/PeterSellers'', namely the sequences set in the 1960s and '70s...as noted at the link, they are anachronisms in relation to the events depicted. One not mentioned anymore at [=IMDb=] is the use of The Clash's "Should I Stay or Should I Go", from 1982, in a scene that cannot be set any later than early Janurary 1979 because Peter is preparing to film ''Film/BeingThere''. (Not to mention Peter ''died'' in 1980.)* ''Film/DazedAndConfused'' both plays it straight and averts it. Most of the tracks featured in the music-heavy film are fairly iconic of 70s rock and well-known today, but several were fairly obscure genre or regional (Southern American) hits.* Averted in ''Film/TheBlob1958'' where the movie marquee shows them playing ''Daughter of Horror'', a movie most people have never even heard of.* A non-musical one: in ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', Marty spends his first night in 1955 with his mother's family, watching an episode of ''TheHoneymooners''. Of course, one reason why ''The Honeymooners'' only lasted 39 episodes as a standalone sitcom is that in the fall and winter of 1955-56 it regularly got trounced in the ratings by ''The Perry Como Show'' in the same Saturday night time slot.** An inversion occurs in one of the opening scenes of ''[[Film/BackToTheFuture Back To The Future Part III]]'', Marty comes out of the restroom at a drive-in theater dressed like a cheesy 1950s cowboy. He comments that he doesn't think Clint Eastwood would ever wear such a thing, and Clint Eastwood is the name he chooses to go by for the rest of the movie. When he says this, he gestures to the movie posters showcasing what movies are currently showing at the drive-in. The two movies are ''Film/RevengeOfTheCreature'' and ''Film/{{Tarantula}}'', two 50s monster flicks, but also the first two movies Eastwood ever appeared in.* Played straight in an ironic sort of way in ''Film/{{Pleasantville}}'', where we hear Buddy' Holly's "Rave On" on a jukebox at exactly the time (April 1958) and place (a teen hang-out) that song would have been heard in real life - but probably NOT in Pleasantville, where anything the least bit unorthodox or controversial (which rock and roll certainly was back then) literally didn't exist. * In ''Film/{{Precious}}'', which takes place in 1987-'88, Precious' mother is shown watching ''227'' and ''[[{{Pyramid}} The $100,000 Pyramid]]'', both of which are not things that people think of when they think of the 80's.* Averted in ''Film/WhenHarryMetSally'', which is set between 1977 and 1989. Instead of contemporary music, the movie uses much older classics by the likes of Sinatra and Bing Crosby.* Kind of present but also somewhat averted in ''DonnieDarko''. It does use some 80s nostalgia tracks like "Head Over Heels" by Tears For Fears but also some more obscurish songs like "The Killing Moon" from Echo & The Bunnymen. Most of what's shown on TV is coverage of the 1988 election and the film shown in the theater is a double bill of The Evil Dead and The Last Temptation of Christ rather than some current film. * Mostly averted in ''Film/{{Adventureland}}'', where the soundtrack is more obscurish songs and music from the underground of the era, rather than a standard "Greatest Hits of the 80s" type deal, though there are a few big hits like Music/JudasPriest's "Breaking The Law" and Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again".** Unless you lived in Australia, [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff where several of those songs were massive hits]].* ''Film/TheWackness'', set in 1994, largely averts this with a soundtrack of mostly obscure hip-hop songs, rather than a pure {{grunge}} soundtrack one would associate with the era. However, it is ''somewhat'' anachronistic, as some of the tracks were not released until after the time period the film is set in.* A somewhat odd example happens in ''Film/TheWackness'' and ''Hardball'' (that Keanu Reeves baseball flick) Where The NotoriousBIG is constantly played. Averted in both as the main character in ''TheWackness'' constantly carries a walkman with him. And in Reeves in ''Hardball'' requests it at a bar.* Semi-averted in ''Film/TheHouseOfTheDevil'', which isn't set in the early 80's so much as [[{{Retraux}} it is specifically designed to look and feel like it was originally filmed during that period]]. Three 80's singles are listened to by characters. "One Thing Leads To Another" by The Fixx is well-remembered enough to show up on many 80's hits compilations. On the other hand, "One Of Our Submarines" by Thomas Dolby and "The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em)" by The Greg Kihn Band are a bit more obscure. All three of these songs were released within a few years of each other and would place the film around 1983 or so. And then the soundtrack also uses much more recent music by Gods Of Fire, which is just influenced by 80's metal enough to not stick out too much.* ''Film/TheWood'' has 80's rap and R&B hits during the flashbacks to 1986.* ''LetMeIn'' (the American remake of ''LetTheRightOneIn''), set in 1983, indulges in this with songs by Music/CultureClub, Music/DavidBowie and Music/BlueOysterCult playing in the background.* Creator/OliverStone's ''Film/BornOnTheFourthOfJuly'' opens in the suburban community of Massapequa, New York, in the year 1956. The characters are attending a Fourth of July parade, and from one of the floats Bill Haley and the Comets' "Rock Around The Clock" can be clearly heard (and there's also a shot of [[GreaserDelinquents some greaser guys and girls]] sulking at the edge of the crowd, glaring at everyone). [[TheNewRockAndRoll Surprisingly]], no one among the families (with many children) lining the street seems to find this at all offensive (which is especially striking because [[ZigZaggingTrope Stone later goes out of his way to show that these working-class suburbanites are extremely socially repressed]]).* ''Film/TakeMeHomeTonight'' runs on this trope as you can guess from the title (it was also titled "Kids In America" at one point). * ''Film/IronMan3'' opens with "Blue (Da Ba Dee)", heralding a flashback to New Year's Eve, 1999.* All your favorite tunes from the '70s in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''. The first thing Wolverine hears in 1973 is Roberta Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"; Quicksilver listens to Music/AliceCooper's "Hello Hooray" and Music/JimCroce's "Time in a Bottle"; the disco in Paris is playing Claude Francois's French '70s hit "Stop au nom de l'amour."[[/folder]]

[[folder:Live Action TV]]* Nearly everyone in ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}'' listens to The Who, Led Zeppelin, Cream and Lou Reed. Never Chicory Tip, The Osmonds, Lieutenant Pigeon or Gilbert O'Sullivan. For those who don't understand, the latter bands all had #1 hits in the '70s... but don't get airplay today outside of syndicated reruns of ''AmericanTop40''.** Except Gene Hunt, who hates most contemporary pop music, but admits to having easy-listening balladeer Roger Whittaker as a GuiltyPleasure. (Whittaker being the sort of artist who everybody under a certain age probably likes to forget was popular at the time, being somewhat less than "cool".) One of Whittaker's songs is heard closing the episode in question.** And Gilbert O'Sullivan is actually featured at the end of a 2nd season episode. A very depressed Sam watches him sing "Alone Again (Naturally)" on TV - [[spoiler: perhaps because parts of the lyrics foreshadow the end of the show. Seriously, "And climbing to the top, will throw myself off in an effort to make it clear to whoever what it's like when you're shattered" ?]]** The U.S. version also used Gilbert O'Sullivan in its first few weeks, but played "Get Down" instead of "Alone Again (Naturally)".** Another possible example from the same episode, depending on how you feel about the band in question:--->'''Carol Twilling''': Does everybody like Santana?--->'''Sam''': Oh, God. [* everyone stares at him* ] ...''God'', I ''love'' Santana.** The sequel, ''AshesToAshes'' has the characters driving the (then) very new- and presumably expensive- Audi Quattro. An icon of 80s nostalgia perhaps, but one suspects they would really have been driving something like a Ford Granada or Cortina, or possibly some 70s-derived model from British Leyland. Of course, [[spoiler:it happens in the characters' heads, so if that's how they remember the 70's/80's (as most people do), it's justified.]]* ''Series/ColdCase'''s [[FlashBack flashbacks]] use only well-remembered hits to help define the feeling of the historical period. With period settings, this can skew toward the anachronistic, since they once used Glenn Miller's "String of Pearls", which Glenn Miller did not even compose until 1941, in an episode centered around the 1938 broadcast of ''The War of the Worlds''** Averted in one episode where plot-related and heard in-universe song was composed specially for show.* Subverted (like so much else) in ''MadMen'', which leans towards gooey big band and forgettable novelty songs of the late 50s: the few exceptions tend to be blatantly anachronistic, as with the use of BobDylan in the season 1 finale.** Starting in Season four, the soundtrack becomes way more contemporary but, with a few exceptions, still fairly obscure.* ''Series/DoctorWho'' isn't known for featuring music or TV shows of the day (with a few present-day exceptions), but in the serial "Remembrance of the Daleks" (set at the time that the very first Doctor Who story aired IRL), Ace leaves a room and the camera cuts to the next scene just as the TV announcer is introducing "a brand new science-fiction show called Doctor..." *click*** The same story (which is set in 1963) has "Do You Want to Know a Secret" and "A Taste of Honey" by The Beatles.** In "Father's Day", Pete's car radio plays several hits of the late 80s, including "[[{{Rickroll}} Never Gonna Give You Up]]".* ''FreaksAndGeeks'' did an excellent job at averting this.* ''{{Smallville}}'' episode ''Relic'' has a series of flashbacks set in the '60s, and at one point the song "Earth Angel" is playing from a car radio... in a scene involving an alien (Jor-El) and his new human girlfriend (Louise).* ''AmericanDreams'' used this motif while actually playing the songs live as they happened on ''AmericanBandstand'', with {{Guest Star}}s as the singers of the day. (Of course, a few of the songs were never played on ''Bandstand'').** ''AmericanDreams'' was notorious for its musical anachronisms. The very first scene in the entire series features Stevie Wonder's "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" playing while the caption reads, "Philadelphia, 1963"...not only three years before the song we're hearing was recorded, but arguably the biggest three-year gap of the rock era in terms of how music changed.* ''Series/CallTheMidwife'' averts this. There is a ''lot'' of music in the show, but the soundtrack (which has 100 songs!) has fairly obscure 50s hits as well as the standards.* The repeats of ''TopOfThePops'' from TheSeventies on BBC Four provide an excellent RealLife deconstruction of this trope. The entire show's premise being ''literally'' NothingButHits - whatever was a hit at the time - but that means everything, including the now-obscure ones and embarrassing novelty records like Disco Duck. Contrast ''The Old Grey Whistle Test'', another contemporary BBC music show which concentrated on more "serious" rock music and the like, which might not have reached the charts but in some cases is regarded as "classic" today.* ''Series/MyMadFatDiary'' includes quite a few tracks which are not the typical GreatestHits associated with TheNineties, along with occasional tracks from earlier periods depending on the setting.* The 2002 adaptation of ''Literature/WhiteTeeth'' uses a number of hit songs contemporary to the setting of each episode (1974 - 1992); mainly non-diagetically for dialogue-free scenes, and in the opening titles and end credits.* ''EverybodyHatesChris'' epitomizes this trope, it takes place in the 80s(1982-1987 to be precise) and almost every single popular 80s song you can think of is heard at some point.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Music]]* Averted with the dozens of various artists/greatest hits compilations issued by record labels such as Time-Life Music, Rhino Records and so forth. While the iconic hits will certainly be included (aside from TheBeatles and RollingStones, whose music is so expensive to license), these compilations are more likely to be genuine representations of what were the most popular songs of the era, including the one-hit wonders, novelty songs, country (if said compilation is pop-oriented and the song was also massively popular with pop audiences) and teen pop.** This is true to a somewhat lesser extent with the country music compilations, although it is possible to get rarities on these various artist albums. It is more likely that consumers will find just the iconic hits of the era rather than also getting songs that, while they may have charted high during their original release, have been relatively forgotten in the years since. Still, country compilations – particularly Time-Life's ''Country [=USA=]'', ''Contemporary Country'' and ''Classic Country'' series, both issued in the 1990s – tend to be relatively accurate representations of what was the most popular songs on the radio from (depending on the series) the early 1940s through mid 1990s.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Video Games]]* ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'' used a lot of famous music that people are likely to recognize as being from the 40's and 50's -- the game itself takes place in 1960. A lot of the songs ''were'' hits, like ''Papa Loves Mambo'' and ''La Mer'', but it's also possible that it's an aversion inasmuch as few people are likely to have heard many (or any) of these songs.** Of course, Rapture was an underwater city that had existed in secret since the late 1940s. It's justified that there wouldn't be any contemporary music in a city that had lived cut off from the rest of the world for years.** ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' plays with this tropes some more: the game takes place in 1912, but all of Colombia's greatest hits came out ''after'' that date in real life, most infamously ''Makin' Whoopee'' (1928).* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series is set in an alternate universe post-apocalyptic 1950s with many references to 50s culture, including a collection of period appropriate songs, most prominently featured in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' where the player can tune into Three Dog's radio show for some easy listening while wandering the Capital Wasteland.** Well, it's averted since these most of these songs only appeared in Fallout 3, and they were from the 40's instead of the atomic age proper. Great mood setter though. New Vegas is closer to this trope for actually having period appropriate music, but many of them were novelty songs.* Back during the [[FollowTheLeader "Introspective Vietnam FPS"]] craze, many companies invoked this trope. Seeing as how a great deal of developers probably weren't born until the tail end of the war, it should be easy to see why they wouldn't think of adding in stuff that wasn't easily available on a Greatest Hits compilation.* Used as a plot point in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker''; Big Boss obtains a recording of his mentor's voice talking to an Englishwoman he doesn't recognize. The only problem is that in the background of the recording, the Live In Japan of the song "Sing" by The Carpenters is playing, a song that was a hit ([[CreatorProvincialism in Japan]]) in 1974, and [[BackFromTheDead his mentor died in 1964]].* The soundtracks of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto: [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Vice City]]'', ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas San Andreas]]'' and ''[[GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories Vice City Stories]]'' are all heavily stacked with hits from TheEighties (in the case of the former and the latter) and the [[TheNineties early '90s]] (in the case of ''San Andreas'').** Averted with several songs, which may sound and feel like the 80's/90's, but are not necessarily widely remembered hits, many being acts that are majorly unknown for people who didn't live in that time period. As well as songs that weren't actually hits outside of the genre charts.* Averted with the game version of ''VideoGame/TheWarriors'', which in addition to the songs from the movie itself (which are themselves quite obscure to most post-Seventies audiences, with the exception of the cover of "Nowhere to Run") also has catchy - but not well-remembered - disco and pop songs that were only minor hits at the time the narrative is taking place (1978-1979). The list of artists includes Mandrill, Love Deluxe, Vivian Vee, and others whom only diehard fans of Seventies music will ever even have heard of. There's even a slightly anachronistic punk song on the soundtrack that is actually from the early Eighties, but ''sounds'' like it could be from the Seventies.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Original]]* Part of the point of WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows' "Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of [some bygone year]" lists is to remind viewers that even in years known for excellent music ''now'', what actually made it on the charts may be very different, or at least ''include'' a lot of junk that rightfully didn't have staying power.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Other]]* One curious aversion exists: in shows and movies set during the 1960s, you are unlikely to hear anything performed by Music/TheBeatles on the soundtrack, and if you do hear Beatles songs at any point they're more likely to be covers than the originals. This is partly because the Beatles' music is both costly to get the rights for and for the most part closely guarded as to what projects will be allowed use of their songs. But considering how they were and are pretty much widely considered ''the'' iconic band of the 1960s, and how popular and widely played their music was and still is, it can be curious listening to something presenting nothing but the 'hits' of the 1960s with this rather large omission in mind.** ''Film/IAmSam'' uses nothing but Beatles songs on the soundtrack, but a) It's set in the modern day (the main characters happen to be fans), b) all the songs are covers, and c) many of them are the "deeper" cuts from the group's albums rather than the huge radio hits.** In fact, it's so rare that when ''MadMen'' used "Tomorrow Never Knows" at the end of an episode, [[http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/how-mad-men-landed-the-beatles-all-you-need-is-love-and-250000/ it made the New York Times]].** The same goes for LedZeppelin and the 1970s, with ''AlmostFamous'' pretty much the only film that was allowed to use LZ's songs.* [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8719454.stm This]] BBC article discusses the 'Unswinging Sixties' after Radio 2 played a chart of the best selling music of the decade. Music including Ken Dodd, Engelbert Humperdinck, Frank Ifield, The Seekers, and Rolf Harris.** Speaking of the BBC, their own Sounds Of The Sixties programme on Saturday mornings averts this trope rather thoroughly; they have an absolutely ''massive'' recorded music library, and the show makes a speciality of playing the lesser-known stuff.[[/folder]]